U+1695C "𖥜" Bamum Letter Phase-D Shoq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖥜
U+1695C "𖥜" Bamum Letter Phase-D Shoq is a glyph from the Bamum script, which was historically used to write the Bamum language of present day Cameroon, and this particular character belongs to the "Phase-D" stage of the script's evolution, representing a revision where King Njoya simplified the earlier pictographic forms into a more streamlined syllabary. The name "Shoq" corresponds to a specific syllable in the Bamum language, and this character is classified under Unicode's Bamum Supplement block, ensuring its preservation for digital text and linguistic study of this West African writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1695C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Shoq |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖥜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖥜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA5 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001695C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd5c |